I really don't see us filling 55,000 tbh, thats a big uptake on the 39,000 that go now, back in the 80,'s heyday, we were only getting about 29,000 on average, and that's when football was affordable.

...................I think you're being over cautious. Everton is on a roll ,the city of Liverpool is on a roll. We would fill 55,000 for most games. Imagine casual supporters being able to buy a seat where you could actually see the pitch !Everton's prices have been frozen for a while and has loads of cheap tickets for young fans. A season ticket costs less than £30 per game . Whether you call that affordable depends on your own circumstances of course.

...................I think you're being over cautious. Everton is on a roll ,the city of Liverpool is on a roll. We would fill 55,000 for most games. Imagine casual supporters being able to buy a seat where you could actually see the pitch !Everton's prices have been frozen for a while and has loads of cheap tickets for young fans. A season ticket costs less than £30 per game . Whether you call that affordable depends on your own circumstances of course.

We do have a good pricing strucure, I agree, and that does tempt lots of younger supporters, for the likes of myself, I have two sons, so for all three of us to go, costs a small fortune. What I was getting at though was we couldnt sell out Goodison when we had a 53,000 capacity, were winning the league and prices were cheap.

The people on that waiting list though probably attend most games, maybe I am being cautious, I'd just hate see lot's of empty seats.

To some extent.We sold 31k season tickets last year (plus however many halfs).Add another few thousand reserved for the aways and from the 10k waiting list it is safe to assume 3 or 4k of them go anyway

We do have a good pricing strucure, I agree, and that does tempt lots of younger supporters, for the likes of myself, I have two sons, so for all three of us to go, costs a small fortune. What I was getting at though was we couldnt sell out Goodison when we had a 53,000 capacity, were winning the league and prices were cheap.

That kind of thinking would have stopped us increasing capacity at the park end. It is mad how low attendences were in the 80s and early 90s though.

If we get a 60k stadium and have 50k in it - it will sound like a 50k crowd. Why bookmark some future date for added expense and upheaval when we can just build it now?

Arsed about some of the seats furthest away from the pitch being empty when we've got 50k in there - I just want the fans who are there to make some noise!

That last bitis the key.It doesn't necessarily matter if there's empty seats if you start selling from front to back.The closer to the pitch the fans are the better really, make the place as hostile as possible.

In real terms season ticket prices at Goodison have never been as low as they are now.

The average price for an over 18 season ticket (excluding over 65's) is £398 i.e. about £21 per game.

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